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«Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?»
«Television is a triumph of equipment over people and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart»
«Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.»
«And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Romance | Keywords: daisy, gnat, gnats, jacket, romance, tale, wets
«He would skin a gnat for its hide and tallow»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: gnat, gnats, tallow